Today’s New Covenant nugget is from John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Jesus has made everything that has been made, including you – He has made you by design – He has thoughtfully designed every part of you and put everything in you that is in you. He could have put you on earth at any time… the time of Adam and Eve, the time of Noah, the time of Abraham, the time of Jesus, or the time of great people like Smith Wigglesworth and Maria Woodworth-Etter, but He did not… Jesus made you, equipped you and designed you to be on earth now, for such a time as this!
JESUS MADE YOU AND I FOR THIS TIME, HE DESIGNED US FOR THIS TIME AND HE EQUIPPED YOU AND I FOR THIS TIME. JESUS GIFTED US FOR THIS TIME AND HE EMPOWERED AND PRE-PROGRAMMED US FOR VICTORY FOR THIS TIME! YOU AND I WERE MADE BY DESIGN, FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS!
JESUS MADE YOU ACCEPTED IN HIM ON CALVARY
Ephesians 1:6 - “To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved”.
The Greek word for ‘accepted’ can also be translated, ‘highly favored’ – ‘full of grace’, ‘bestowed with blessings’ or, ‘fully qualified and equipped to operate in the authority of Christ’.
Jesus did not just make you good enough, He made you highly favored, full of grace, bestowed with blessings and fully qualified and equipped to operate in the authority of Christ.
JESUS MADE YOU TO BE A MINISTER
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 - “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant.”
Did you know that you are an ordained minister? No, I am not talking about a denominational ordination, I am talking about the fact that Jesus made you a minister… He ordained you, anointed you and fully equipped you in your mother’s womb as a minister of the New Covenant.
JESUS HAS BUILT INTO US EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO BE MINISTERS OF THE NEW COVENANT - SUPERNATURAL ABILITY TO CONTINUE THE WORKS OF JESUS, TO MINISTER HEALING, TO WORK MIRACLES, EXERCISE POWER OVER THE DEVIL AND TO REIGN IN THIS LIFE IN CHRIST.
JESUS MADE YOU TO BE FREE AND TO BRING FREEDOM
Galatians 5:1 - “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
JESUS HAS MADE YOU FREE TO BRING FREEDOM – YOU HAVE AN ANOINTING OF FREEDOM BUILT INTO YOU. YOU HAVE A BONDAGE DESTROYING ANOINTING BUILT INTO YOU!
JESUS MADE YOU A KING AND A PRIEST
Revelation 1:5-6 - “From Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
A king reigns as a leader over the land, he reigns over economical, things, political things and the general running of things, including the laws of the land, security, policies and such - a priest is in charge of spiritual things… revival, miracles, signs, wonders, worship, prayer and teaching and training people to walk in the Spirit and in the Word – both kings and priests are needed for things to prosper – Jesus has MADE YOU both to work in His kingdom and to be His hand extended!
JESUS HAS MADE YOU ALIVE TO REIGN FROM HEAVEN
Ephesians 2:4-6 - “God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ [full of life in the Anointed One and His anointing], and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”
The Father has ‘made you’ alive in Christ and ‘has made you’ sit together in Heaven in Jesus, to reign with Him as a king and a priest from Heaven to earth.
WHEN YOU GOT BORN AGAIN, JESUS MADE YOU SPIRITUALLY ALIVE AND RAISED YOU UP TO REIGN WITH HIM FROM HEAVEN OVER THE EARTH
You reign sitting down in Christ… in other words you reign in a place of rest, peace and faith in the finished work of Jesus. The devil is under your feet and is a defeated and a disarmed foe.
Some may say, “If Jesus has really MADE ME highly favored, full of grace, bestowed with blessings and fully qualified and equipped to operate in the authority of Christ… if Jesus has really made me a minister with supernatural ability to continue the works of Jesus… if Jesus has really made me free with an anointing to bring freedom wherever I go, and if He has made me a king and a priest to reign with Him from Heaven over earth… if I am really fully equipped, empowered, gifted and made by design to thrive in these times, then why am I not experiencing any of that in my life?
The Answer is that people can only operate in the way that Jesus has made them to operate when they know who they are in Christ and when they get a revelation of all the supernatural abilities that Jesus has put in them… many, if not most believers do not know who or what Jesus made them to be or what their true ability is through Christ.
Ask the Holy Spirit for a revelation on who you are in Jesus and on all the things that Jesus equipped you with when He made you… this is your season, you were made for this!
MAKE THIS CONFESSION OF FAITH…
“I HAVE BEEN MADE FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS,
I AM FULLY EQUIPPED, ANOINTED AND ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS,
I WAS MADE TO FLOURISH IN THESE TIMES,
EVERYTHING THAT I NEED AND EVERYTHING THAT THOSE AROUND ME NEED HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE INSIDE OF ME, FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.”
Blessings on you, Nick
